Sentences with phrase «since embryonic stem cells»

But since embryonic stem cells were first isolated in Wisconsin in 1998, Minnesota has lagged in the field while other states pushed the research.

Opponents have argued that the law should be rescinded since embryonic stem cells can now be generated from induced pluripotent stem cells, a technique that does not involve human embryos.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

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research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

Such a single - step conversion of an adult cell into an embryonic stem cell entirely avoids the question of whether an embryo has been created, since the cell produced by ANT - OAR never exhibits any of the properties of a single - cell embryo.

This question has been the topic of considerable legal and social debate over the years since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision» debate that has only been intensified by the recent controversies over human embryonic stem cells and human....

Since embryonic stem - cell research systematically kills thousands of unborn babies, a practice that only orcs would contemplate in Middle - earth, it is clear that Jackson and Walsh have sided with the Dark Lord.

He has been making that point since 2004, when in testimony to the U.S. Senate, he warned embryonic stem cell opponent Sam Brownback of Kansas, «Those in a position of advice or authority who participate in the banning or enforced delays of biomedical research that could lead to the saving of lives and the amelioration of suffering are directly and morally responsible for the lives made worse or lost due to the ban, or even of a moratorium that would deny such treatments in that short window of time when it could help or save them.»

«So that's them,» he said, pointing out some of the nonpresidential embryonic stem cells that have been created and distributed among researchers since 2001.

In the decade since the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, the science surrounding stem cells has grown dramatically.

Tensions have escalated since August 2001, when President George W. Bush limited publicly funded research on embryonic stem cells to already existing lines.

Since its inception, CIRM has sought to create a system from the ground up for funding research on human embryonic stem cells to fill in the gaps left by federal funding restrictions (ScienceNOW, 12 April).

In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells» laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic - stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.

The study results, published in the journal Cell, revolve around iPSCs, which since their 2006 discovery have enabled researchers to coax mature (fully differentiated) bodily cells (e.g. skin cells) to become like embryonic stem cells.

The researchers suggest that since the adult muscle stem cells are only activated when injury occurs (by trauma or exercise), they use a new set of genes from those used during embryonic development, which proceeds without injury.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

For the first time since the linkurl: National Institutes of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ released its new guidelines for the derivation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines last summer, a line approved under the Bush administration has been recommended for inclusion into the growing federal registry of lines eligible for federal funding.

Since human embryonic stem cells grow in an adherent culture system, for cells being reprogrammed this «new culture system» is an adherent culture system (to try and mimic the conditions the embryonic stem cells want to be happy).

Since the adoption of the Bioethics law (June 23, 2011), the ban on embryonic stem cell research, and the system of derogation are maintained, with a compulsory additional revision within the next seven years.

But many other kinds of non-embryonic stem cells have taken the spotlight since then, including artificial embryonic stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells that can be created directly from patient cells.

Since regeneration recapitulates in broad strokes embryonic development, during which a complex multi-cellular organism develops from a handful of embryonic stem cells, the researchers began by comparing gene expression patterns between the two processes.